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Nutrition for Anxiety: Foods to Eat and Avoid
Nutrition is fuel for your body. Choose the right fuel and your body, including your mind, may function better. Research on the role of nutrition in fighting anxiety is mixed, but studies ... Read More
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6 Ways the Limbic System Impacts Physical, Emotional, and Mental Health
The limbic system is a set of brain structures that plays a role in emotions, particularly those that evolved early and which play an important role in survival. Research has linked the ... Read More
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Shock and Testing: Two More Twists on the Road to Grief Recovery?
In her seminal book, On Death and Dying, psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross identified five distinct stages of grief. Kübler-Ross worked with dying people and designed her model to describe ... Read More
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Repressed Memory Recovery: Useful Tool or Misleading Practice?
Repression describes the unconscious act of burying distressing memories or feelings. Once buried, these memories are no longer a part of a person’s awareness, unless they someday retrieve, ... Read More
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Isolation and Loneliness: What’s the Difference?
Some people use the words “isolation” and “loneliness” interchangeably, but this does not reflect the true meaning of each term. Isolation may lead to loneliness, ... Read More
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What You Should Know About the Link Between Anxiety and Self-Harm
While many people are much more aware of anxiety now than in the past, some details and symptoms still aren’t as commonly discussed. One lesser-known symptom of anxiety is the urge to ... Read More
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How to Stop Misophonia From Ruining Your Relationship
Misophonia, sometimes called selective sound sensitivity syndrome, is sensitivity to specific sounds. Some common triggers include eating sounds such as chewing, throat sounds, nasal sounds ... Read More
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Two Meditations That Use Mindfulness to Heal Rejection
Rejection is dangerous. A broken heart is similar to a broken arm. The pain of social rejection often leads to an avalanche of emotional and cognitive consequences, but mindfulness can ... Read More
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Can Anxiety Cause Stuttering? A Look at Speech and Mental Health
Stuttering is a complex speech issue that affects about 1% of adults. People who stutter may become socially anxious, fear public speaking, or worry their stuttering will undermine their ... Read More
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What Is Sleep Hygiene? Hint: It’s Not Just Showering Before Bed
It’s that time of year when the kids have gone back to school and we are approaching daylights savings. I know in my family, it’s been an adjustment to get everyone on a better sleep ... Read More
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How to Cope with the Grief of Infant Loss
The loss of a child is often considered to be the most painful, wrenching experience a person can have. The loss of an infant may be sudden and shocking or follow many months of neonatal ... Read More
